Roosevelt at Oyster Bay – Antique Wall Art
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Roosevelt at Oyster Bay. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Roosevelt at Oyster Bay
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Oyster Bay on Long Island was Theodore Roosevelt's home base, and his estate, Sagamore Hill, lay just outside the village. This 1912 glass negative comes from the George Grantham Bain Collection, the photographs of the Bain News Service, a commercial agency that sold news pictures to newspapers and magazines in the early twentieth century. That year Roosevelt was seeking the presidency again as the Progressive ("Bull Moose") candidate after breaking with the Republican Party, so pictures of him from this period often served the campaign news cycle. The title comes from the agency's own caption data, which may not be fully verified, so the exact occasion is best confirmed against the catalog record.
| Created / published | 1912 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Temp. note: Batch two loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,748 × 4,172 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-8139 |
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